In 2007, UK lawyers Davenport Lyons (DL) got into the lucrative business of threatening to sue file-sharers.
Their clients used anti-piracy tracking companies to harvest the IP addresses of many thousands of users allegedly sharing video games.
This information was used to get court orders which forced ISPs to hand over their details.
DL then wrote to the individuals demanding several hundred pounds to make the threat of a lawsuit disappear.
Some paid up, but many did not, and...
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